News

Congratulations to our 2021 summer interns, Erin Kim (finalist in Translational Medical Science) and Maryam Abdel-Azim (fourth place in Microbiology), for their phenomenal work at the 2022 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)! We are so proud of you and thrilled that you are returning to continue your work on new anti-infective therapies at the Rahme Lab this summer! (May 2022)

We are so proud of Dr. Rahme, who was featured in this MGH article, titled “Former Mass General Leaders Fund the Future”! (April 2022)

The 2021 Mass General Research Institute (MGRI) Image Awards results were announced! Erin Kim, the Rahme Lab’s high school research intern, was honored in the “Science As Art” category with an illustration of her research topic, quorum sensing. Her work was selected to be exhibited in the 2022 MGH CNY Vitality and Advocacy Committee Science as Art Show and is currently on display at Building 149 in Charlestown. Upon the conclusion of this year’s CNY Science as Art Show, Erin’s work will move to the permanent collection to adorn the research hallways at CNY149 and CNY114. Check out more about her work here and the winning entries in this video! (November 2021)

Check out the pre-print of our recent work on decontamination of N-95 masks amidst the COVID-19 emergency in collaboration with the Ebru Lab at MGH. We thank Dr. Ebru Oral and her team for giving us the opportunity to help and a big shout-out to Dr. Amy Tsurumi for all the hard work she put in making this a success story. (May 2020)

The Rahme Lab’s newly published PLOS ONE paper “Denver and Marshall scores successfully predict susceptibility to multiple independent infections in trauma patients” gets featured on the MGH Press Release. (May 2020)

Dr. Rahme gets featured on the Shriners Hospital for Children - Boston Website and their Facebook Page for her exceptional work on Burn and Trauma Research. (May 2020)

Dr. Rahme receives the MGH Research Scholars Award. (April 2020)

Dr. Rahme featured in Shriners Hospitals for Children magazine's “Faculty Spotlight”. (May 2018)

Dr. Rahme was elected American Academy of Microbiology 2017 Fellow.

Dr. Arunava Bandyopadhaya was recognized for his seminal work on Pseudomonas quorum-sensing molecule on epigenetic reprogramming of the host immune response and Dr. Rahme's mentorship was highlighted in the MGH Surgery News (Spring 2017 edition).

Dr. Rahme and Dr. Tsurumi's talk at the Beacon Hill Women's Forum on April 10, 2018 was highlighted in the Beacon Hill Times. (April 19, 2018)

News press on Dr. Rahme's collaboration with Aptuit for drug discovery. (Jan. 24, 2017)

Dr. Bandyopadhaya's Poster of Distinction award at the MGH Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) 2015 Meeting was announced.

Our Annals of Surgery paper, Prediction of Multiple Infections After Severe Burn Trauma: A Prospective Cohort Study was featured in:

MGH press release (Feb. 4, 2015) & Healio Infectious Disease News (Feb. 9, 2015)

Partners Innovation news about Dr. Rahme and her start-up company, Spero receives global recognition as only among two Partners spinoff companies receiving Fierce 15 honors. (December 1, 2014)

Dr. Rahme and Dr. Apidianakis, along with collaborators Dr. Perrimon and Dr. Pitsouli, highlighted in Harvard Medical School news about their Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publication. (April 23, 2010)

The article was among the journal's current issue highlights. (December 8, 2009)